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“What the fuck?” Dante rushes in and shoves Connor aside.

“No. Connor, no, you don’t mean that. You love me. I love you. You don’t mean that.” I don’t care who knows anymore. He has to believe me. He has to.

“Love you? I will never forgive you for this. I don’t want to see your face ever again,” he says before adding the last nail to my coffin. “I hate you.”

“No!” I scream. Dante’s arms wrap around me as I try to get up and go after Connor.He doesn’t mean it. He’s just in shock.

“What the fuck happened in here?” Dante asks.

“Your psychotic cousin just killed mine. That’s what happened. She just started a damn war,” Connor tells him.

Dante looks from Connor to me. “What the fuck happened, Aurora?”

“I don’t know. Something is wrong. I don’t know.” I keep repeating the same words over and over.

“She needs to be locked away. Get her the fuck out of here.” Connor kneels down and pulls the knife out of Kenny’s neck. “Take this.”

“She can’t even walk. What did you give her?” Dante lets me go and pushes at Connor’s chest.

“She’s probably drunk on the fucking high she gets from killing. Go on, ask her. Ask her how much she loves the kill.” Connor looks down at me.

I shake my head.This isn’t happening. This can’t be happening. I must be dreaming. It’s a nightmare. This isn’t real.

“What are you talking about?” Dante asks.

“I’m telling you to get her the fuck out. She can’t be here,” Connor hisses. “I can’t see her right now.”

“Okay.” Dante reaches down and pulls me to my feet.

“No, don’t take me. He needs me. I need to stay. I need to help,” I plead with them.

“Help? You can’t help. You’re a fucking mess, Aurora. You need to stay the fuck away from me. I mean it,” Connor says.

Tears fall down my cheeks.

“You talk to her like that again and you’ll be the next Irish fuck to meet the devil,” Dante says, and I grab on to his shirt to steady myself.

“Take me home,” I whisper.

The whole world is spinning as Dante guides me out of the house and onto the passenger seat of his car.

“What happened?” Josie asks from where she’s sitting in the back.

“I ruined everything,” I tell her. “I had it and I lost it.”

“Seriously, Aurora, you’ve been seeing that fucker?” Dante growls, the tires of his car screeching as he pulls out of the driveway.

“Why is everything spinning?” I groan.

“Josie, call the doc. We’re going to need him.”

“Where are we taking her? We can’t take her home like this,” she says.

“We’ll go to the pool house,” Dante says. “Just tell the doc to meet us there.”

“I don’t know why I did that,” I say. “Why would I do that?”

“I don’t know.” Dante sighs. “But it’s going to be okay.”